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Mehee Choi1, William Small1, Bahman Emami1.
Abstract
This editorial comments on the study by Tallet et al. which reported on the incidence of ipsilateral second breast cancers (BC) detected by preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients being considered for intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT). Any second BC was detected in 7% of patients; an ipsilateral BC was detected in 4% of patients, precluding them from IORT. The authors comment that in view of detection of a substantial rate of ipsilateral BCs by preoperative MRI, this exam should be used routinely for staging patients being considered for IORT.Entities:
Keywords: Breast cancer (BC); accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI); intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Year: 2016 PMID: 27162648 PMCID: PMC4842802 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2016.03.27
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Thorac Dis ISSN: 2072-1439 Impact factor: 2.895